Aorun

Choiniere et al. 2013

Aorun is a genus of carnivorous theropod dinosaur first discovered in 2006, with its scientific description published in 2013. It is generally considered one of the oldest known coelurosaurian dinosaurs and is estimated to have lived ~161.6 million years ago during the Late Jurassic Period, though some researchers consider it to be a carnosaurian instead.

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

PBDB occurrences

Group

Dinosaures

Carnivore Ground dwelling, solitary Terrestrial

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A reconstruction of Aorun, a small coelurosaurian theropod from the Middle Jurassic China. © J-H. Jang · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia

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Classification

Dinosauria Unranked clade

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Theropoda Unranked clade

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Neotheropoda Unranked clade

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Averostra Unranked clade

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Tetanurae Unranked clade

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Coelurosauria Unranked clade

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Alvarezsauria Infraorder

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Aorun Genus

Fossil sites 1 geolocated sites

Distribution

Top countries

🇨🇳 China

Geological formations

Shishugou

Temporal distribution

Callovian (165.3–161.5 Ma)

Species (1)

Aorun zhaoi 165 Ma

Bibliography

Original description

J. N. Choiniere, J. M. Clark, and C. A. Forster, M. A. Norell, D. A. Eberth G. M. Erickson, H. Chu, X. Xu. 2013. A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI ↗

Bibliography (1)